Re: sysinst coredump on VAX/current (Was: VS3100M76 - current)

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

:-)

Answer at bottom..

David Brownlee wrote:

> Should be there now (along with a nonpam build and most of a nopic build,
> but its the standard one which is of interest :)
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 May 2014 18:25, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > > On 21 May 2014 16:17, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > > David Brownlee wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Picking up on this single point (in a new thread).
> > > > >
> > > > > Looks like there is a small bug in curses in NetBSD-current related
> > to
> > > > > embedded newlines in addstr(). On most platforms its relatively
> > benign,
> > > > but
> > > > > on vax it causes a coredump (handy).
> > > > >
> > > > > There is a PR filed:
> > > > > http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=48827
> > > > >
> > > > > NetBSD/current has a workaround for the coredump until the bug
> > itself is
> > > > > fixed, so tomorrow's -current build should have a working sysinst.
> > This
> > > > > specific issue does not appear in any release or on the netbsd-6
> > branch,
> > > > > just in current
> > > >
> > > > THX David but I dont think that this is related to my problems since
> > > > -current isn't crashing in sysinst only, the newfs and tar have
> > problems
> > > > also.
> > > >
> > >
> > > >From what I gathered newfs and tar were crashing in different places
> > while
> > > sysinst always failed at the same place? I think the change I reference
> > > above will probably fix that specific crash you are seeing in sysinst,
> > > though it should not help any of the other issues.
> > >
> > > I'm just uploaded a test iso I built to
> > > http://sync.absd.org/vax/timing-images/NetBSD-6.99.41-vax.iso - it will
> > be
> > > 124051456 bytes when complete and should be there within the hour. If you
> > > have time would you be willing to test boot it on any of your vaxen which
> > > showed the sysinst crash and see if you can get past that stage (you do
> > not
> > > need to install onto the disk, its just to check this one specific
> > issue).
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Ok, I'll do that. Currently it has only ~ 93MB...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Holm
> >
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I'm already watching the slow spinning spinner, now it is loading the bss
fraction of the kernel..

Regards,

Holm

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